A twitter discussion varies greatly from a blackboard discussion. On twitter people are relegated to expressing their ideas on topics to 3 or 4 sentences. This means that any deep meaningful conversation about a topic will be very hard to have because opinions and feelings will have to be as concise as possible. This is both a positive and a negative because people will have to focus on the topic at hand, but at the same time most conversations will be very shallow and not allow for in-depth conversations. Another factor that prevents users from having in depth discussions is that one's comments are just one in a sea of potentially millions. Unless of course the discussion is relegated to a certain hashtag, it will be almost unlikely that a discussion will take place in the first place.
Discussions on blackboard will allow the user to go in-depth with conversations and allow the users to express themselves using more words and because there is no character limit, users have much more freedom to go into specific detail. This is still not much better, because an important role in having discussions as a society is how people project themselves and how eloquently they speak. This is still the number one way in which discussions should be had because people should be able to have complete control over their vocabulary and their emotions.
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